June 2005 - Posts

"The Documentation cache is still being constructed..."

Published 29 June 5 12:16 AM | William

This is probably old as h3ll and everyone except me has come across it. However I've been using Visual Studio .NET since there's been such a thing and I've never seen it before. I was looking to verify that ItemArray in a DataRow took object[] as the...

Filed under: .NET General

Newsgroup Humor

Published 28 June 5 12:24 AM | William

Ok, I guess I should refrain from having a sense of humor (God knows certain Tech editors I know frown about having a personality or using your own code that other people have taken from you). Anyway, this came up tonight: SomeGuy: “ I can look...

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New blogmap neighbor

Published 27 June 5 11:48 PM | William

We have some cool cats in our bloghood with Chris being the latest addition . I was digging the site and then i saw his picture. He looks like a cross between Michael Stipe and Kevin Spacey. But like my other blog neighbor Chris, he get a full 100% for...

Filed under: Life in General

Shown up in Atlanta

Published 25 June 5 2:1 PM | William

I was in Atlanta on Friday and it was an interesting day to say the least. For 32 years I've believed that other than New York and LA, Miami had the WORST traffic in the Galaxy. Once again, i'm wrong. Not only isn't Miami's traffic as bad as Atlanta's...

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A Really Great Job Offer if you're interested.

Published 17 June 5 11:28 AM | William

Ok, I know this is SPAM and I don't want to turn this into a debate about Offshoring or H1B's - I've pissed enough people off by saying that I think legal immigration is good for the industry and that there's something really hypocritical about a country...

Filed under: Humor

Visual Studio 2010

Published 14 June 5 9:50 PM | William

This is Hella Cool

Filed under: .NET General

Biting my Style

Published 14 June 5 5:30 PM | William

One phrase I bet NO one has ever said is “Too bad there's only one Bill Ryan, we sure could use another one”. Hell, I wouldn't even say that. But my friend Roland Boon just pointed me to this guy ToastedRoasted . Ok, there's a slight possibility...

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Torture?

Published 12 June 5 6:41 PM | William

I'm not in any way trying to get into the whole Gitmo thing or whether or not we should torture suspected terrorist with important info if they won't talk. However I just read this: << Dripping Water or Playing Christina Aguilera Music : After the...

Filed under: News, Humor

Another Freestyling Link

Published 11 June 5 5:32 PM | William

Every time I've added one of these, it fills up fast. Right now the last one I added takes about a minute to load b/c of all the posts.

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

My Kick a55 Taste in Music

Published 9 June 5 9:27 PM | William

Those of you that know me know that not only am I really really smart and really good looking, but I have killer taste in cool stuff. So I was putting some new stuff on my Portable Media center and I was checking out my collection. Damn I kick a33. Rough...

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Great commentary

Published 9 June 5 9:8 PM | William

classic Sahil

Filed under: Humor

Another Scott R Meme

Published 9 June 5 9:6 PM | William

Another Scot Meme I am Pacman . I am an aggressive sort of personality, out to get what I can, when I can. I prefer to avoid confrontation, but sometimes when it's called for, I can be a powerful character. I tend to be afflicted with munchies constantly...

Filed under: Humor, Memes

Beta 2 Hell

Published 9 June 5 8:58 PM | William

Ok, God decided to prove he's got a great sense of humor. He let me get the Beta 2 bits installed. But, after VS Starts up, I see the splash screen, and it just goes away. Just disappears. Nothing in the event log, nothing. Now, this happened on two different...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

If you bought this book....

Published 9 June 5 3:42 PM | William

My friend Jason showed tipped me off to this... Either it's a typo or someone is smoking crack. If you bought this, I have a TON of other books I'd be happy to sell you for $2,000. I bought Bill Vaughn's killer Reporting Services Book a while ago and...

Filed under: Books

A priceless discussion on DataSets vs. BusinessObjects

Published 8 June 5 8:33 AM | William

A whole bunch of heavy hitters are mixing it up here . My take on it is that discussions like this are not for the lightweights. Step into that discussion and you BETTER know what you're talking about.

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General

More Never, Never, Never

Published 8 June 5 8:14 AM | William

I think a while back I posted something that you should Never ever ever ever ever do in respect to exception handling. Well, my friend came across another one which is even better than the last one. He only gave it three Never's but I suspect he meant...

Filed under: Coding Techniques

Sql Server 2005 - Biztalk 2006 will be here soon....

Published 7 June 5 10:38 AM | William

Greetings, It is official - the countdown to launch has begun! During my Tech.Ed keynote this morning, I announced that SQL Server(TM) 2005, Visual Studio ® 2005 and BizTalk ® Server 2006 will launch the week of November 7. This will be the...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Kick a33

Published 5 June 5 10:18 PM | William

Casey Does it again Totally kick a55.

Filed under: Speech Server

Architect Certification

Published 5 June 5 9:29 PM | William

This is a few days old but Microsoft is going to be hosting a Architect Certification . Anyway, Tobin has been talking about this for a while, and as long as they don't hand it out to everyone that shells out the money to take it, it looks like a pretty...

Filed under: News

Frans Bouma Sitings

Published 5 June 5 1:35 AM | William

My buddy Roland tipped me off the other day, but he actually got to MEET Frans Bouma . Well here are some pictures compliments of Peter Van Ooijen . Frans, if you don't know him, is the brains behind LLBLGenPro . I actually am currently participating...

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